The Genocide Convention: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session on Ex. O, 81-1, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Adopted Unanimously by the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris on December 9, 1948, and Signed on Behalf of the United States on December 11, 1948U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - Počet stran: 181 |
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... domestic concern , and in using the word " concern , " let me emphasize that I use it in purely a legal and technical sense and not in the humanitarian sense . All of us , of course - all of us- -are concerned in a human way about ...
... domestic concern , and in using the word " concern , " let me emphasize that I use it in purely a legal and technical sense and not in the humanitarian sense . All of us , of course - all of us- -are concerned in a human way about ...
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... domestic law . By not ratifying , we exclude ourselves from the community of civi- lized nations who declared unanimously that genocide is a crime under international law and that states are obligated to prevent and punish it . Such a ...
... domestic law . By not ratifying , we exclude ourselves from the community of civi- lized nations who declared unanimously that genocide is a crime under international law and that states are obligated to prevent and punish it . Such a ...
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... domestic law - I repeat , domestic law - in binding the conduct of American citizens and the States . In our federal system , a treaty does much more than simply to bind the international conduct of the Federal Government as a contract ...
... domestic law - I repeat , domestic law - in binding the conduct of American citizens and the States . In our federal system , a treaty does much more than simply to bind the international conduct of the Federal Government as a contract ...
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... domestic jurisdiction - I repeat , State domestic jurisdiction . The use of the treatymaking power in this area is inappropriate . In effect , the Convention would continue the policy made possible by the Su- preme Court in its decision ...
... domestic jurisdiction - I repeat , State domestic jurisdiction . The use of the treatymaking power in this area is inappropriate . In effect , the Convention would continue the policy made possible by the Su- preme Court in its decision ...
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... domestic liberties . Mr. Chairman , in preparing this statement , I was impressed by the testimony given in 1950 by Charles B. Rix , vice chairman of the spe- cial committee on peace and law of the American Bar Association . At that ...
... domestic liberties . Mr. Chairman , in preparing this statement , I was impressed by the testimony given in 1950 by Charles B. Rix , vice chairman of the spe- cial committee on peace and law of the American Bar Association . At that ...
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Strana 141 - Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the...
Strana 143 - These later decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.
Strana 39 - The treaty power, as expressed in the Constitution, is in terms unlimited except by those restraints which are found in that instrument against the action of the government or of its departments, and those arising from the nature of the government itself and of that of the States.
Strana 86 - And a statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process of law.
Strana 161 - In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such : (a) Killing members of the group ; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part...
Strana 148 - The jurisdiction of the Court comprises all cases which the parties refer to it and all matters specially provided for in the Charter of the United Nations or in treaties and conventions in force.
Strana 160 - Disputes between the Contracting Parties relating to the interpretation, application or fulfilment of the present Convention, including those relating to the responsibility of a State for genocide or for any of the other acts enumerated in article III, shall be submitted to the International Court of Justice at the request of any of the parties to the dispute.
Strana 126 - International Convention for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954.
Strana 86 - Persons charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.
Strana 92 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance, in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can at...